A TILT Benefit: An Evening with Garrison Keillor in Eau Claire, WI on May 7th

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An Evening With Garrison Keillor: A Benefit for TILT (Transforming Individual Lives Today)

A great night of storytelling, music and singing with Garrison Keillor, creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion. TILT is a 501c3 non-profit that that aims to foster self-sufficiency for orphans and the impoverished of Uganda.

Wednesday, May 7, 7:30 pm

The Pablo Center’s RCU Theater in Eau Claire, WI

Tickets are $25 Student tickets, $50, $100 and $400, not including fees.

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Or consider an online donation: One Gift, One Child.

Transforming Individual Lives Today, Inc., based in Menomonie, WI, continues the work of Alec Johnson who grew up there and who died in an accident in 2014. In the past several years, TILT has put more than 100 students in Uganda through high school or trade school, helped improve farming methods in the country, provided resources to local schools there for teaching tailoring and other vocational skills, and created small cooperative clubs called Village Savings and Loan Associations that provide economic sustainability by growing and sharing capital from their profits. Every dollar contributed to TILT is tax-deductible and goes to support and expand these programs. None of the contributions are used for administrative expenses.

For more information about projects that TILT has accomplished and projects that they plan for the future, go to their Website or their Facebook page.

Here are a few project examples:

Seed Potato Storage

• There are two growing seasons in Uganda. Potatoes are a staple. Seed potatoes are saved from each crop to start the next. These have been piled in the back of thatched huts. The St. Augustine Community Love Programme noted that these often rotted during the few weeks between seasons. Three times, TILT has donated funds for construction of simple ventilated secure buildings with racks for potato storage. This solved the problem of rot loss and allowed sales of some of their supply and donation of other seed potatoes to impoverished families.

• Starter Potatoes

  Families of a primary school student who need income to send their child to school are given enoguh starter potatoes to plant a quarter acre. The student learned not only at school, but also farming at home—and also learned about paying it forward when enough of the first crop to plant another quarter acre was given to another family with the same needs, and the same responsibility to pay it forward.

• Goats for Kids

  A breeding pair of goats is given to the family of a primary school student who need income to send their child to school. The student learns not only at school, but also animal husbandry at home—and also learns about paying it forward when the first offspring from the pair are given to more families with the same needs, and the same responsibility to pay it forward.

Online to support One Gift, One Child

Online gifts to TILT through Give Lively at this time primarily support the mission of One Gift, One Child.